SAELIA APARICIO

24 Nov 2017-28 Jan 2018

Overview

Aparicio’s figures take their skin off and leave it behind draped over chairs, creatures emerge from under fingernails, features are squashed and smashed together. Underneath the skin, the body’s hidden functions are affected by the world outside, in the film A Mysterical Journey we travel into digestive tracts and through nerves and veins, as the body improbably digests chairs, mops, knives and pot plants. Humour, and an aesthetic style inspired by comic books and cartoons, belies a concern for the bodily impact of daily life, disease and age.